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NAGPUR: The Nagpur Metro Railway has decided to exploit the commercial opportunities at the two main junctions of North-South and East-West corridor where a multi-storey station complex will come up, a top official said. "The junction will have a multi-storey, may be a 25 storey complex, in the heart of the city which will have food plaza, shopping, commercial establishments, banks and other private venture, which will ultimately raise capital and make the Metro financially viable," Managing Director, Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Ltd, Brijesh Dixit, said.

NEW DELHI: As many as 2.86 lakh toilets have been constructed in schools across the country under the Swachh Vidyalaya Initiative with Andaman and Nicobar, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Kerala, Puducherry and Sikkim achieving 100 per cent target. Stating this in Lok Sabha today, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said states and Union territories and PSUs from 15 Central ministries and more than 10 private sector entities are involved in construction of toilets in about 2.68 lakh schools.

BANKA: A group of Maoist ultras attacked a bridge construction site in Banka district, thrashing workers, shooting indiscriminately and torching vehicles stationed there during the wee hours today. Banka Superintendent of Police Satya Prakash said nine labourers were injured in the incident, of which three have bullet injuries. The torched vehicles include two SUVs, two tractors, an excavator, an earthmover and a motorcycle. "The incident happened near Dudhiyatadi village along Odni river where a bridge is being constructed by Chaubatiya Constructions . It seems to be a fall out of levy (extortion)

SAHA: The construction rate of national highways has gone up by seven times since the BJP assumed charge at the Centre and road projects worth Rs 5 lakh crore are in the offing, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said here today. "Our government has speeded up the construction of highways by seven times," said the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister after laying foundation stones of two road projects here in Ambala district. Stating that the BJP-led Centre is building highways at a pace of 14-km per day while the previous Congress regime laid only two kms a day, Gadkari said NH works worth Rs five lakh crore would be generated in the next five years providing employment opportunities to 50 lakh youths.

WASHINGTON: A New Jersey-based construction management firm has been charged with bribing Indian officials several crores of rupees to win two major water developmental projects in Goa and in Guwahati. The bribery of over Rs 6 crore ($976,630) for a Goa project by Louis Berger included that to a minister, the details of which have not been disclosed by the Department of Justice . Yesterday, the company agreed to pay $17.1 million criminal fine to resolve charges that it bribed officials in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Kuwait to secure government construction management contracts.

NEW DELHI: The labour ministry will soon extend its medical coverage benefits to on-site construction workers, a step in the direction to provide social security to a huge section of the unorganized workers. Prime minister Narendra Modi is likely to announce government's big bang initiative at the upcoming Indian Labour Conference on Monday. The decision to extend the benefits of complete medical care to on-site workers under the ESIC scheme comes just ahead of the monsoon session of the Parliament in which the labour ministry intends to get four key legislations passed despite stiff opposition from trade unions.

DARJEELING: The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration has decided to work together with the state government to construct model houses at Mirik under Kurseong sub-division of Darjeeling district, which was recently hit by landslides that claimed several lives. The GTA held a meeting with the district administration yesterday to discuss in detail the extent of damage caused by the July 1 landslides in Mirik and Kalimpong sub-divisions. After the meeting, GTA chief executive Bimal Gurung said, "We had a comprehensive discussion with officials of the district administration to estimate the damage caused by the recent landslides.

PATNA: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the state government has increased its contribution for construction of per toilet to Rs 8,000 from Rs 1,333 to end open defecation. The Centre provides Rs 4,000 for construction of per toilet in urban areas. Hence, the combined money from the state and the Centre for constructing per toilet now would be Rs 12,000, the chief minister said at a function of Public Health Engineering Department (PHED). Kumar said that since the earlier amount was not sufficient for constructing good toilets, the state government had decided to enhance its share to Rs 8,000.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A Kerala institute built at a cost of Rs.100 crore will train masons to become engineers, a minister said on Wednesday. Indian Institute for Infrastructure and Construction will train masons to upgrade their skills and get a certification of the Britain-based City and Guilds - a global leader in skills development - Labour Minister Shibu Baby John told IANS. The campus is coming up a nine-acre plot near Kollam and the institute building is pread across two lakh square ft. The institute will open in January next year.

NEW DELHI: The city government today faced the wrath of the Delhi High Court which said its recent circular permitting the sale of unauthorisedly constructed buildings "ditched the common man" and favoured builders. "This order (circular) is favouring builders and is against the people as the municipal authorities are free to demolish such constructions," a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva observed after the circular was brought to its attention. "We have been saying there are unauthorised constructions in the capital which are built on one brick and any slight tremor would lead to thousands of deaths.